REFLECTOR: Sun-n-fun news ?

[Pat Shea]

Yes, side sticks coming from the dash.

I don't get their market:

4 place canard (same as a proven Velocity)

$150K airframe (twice as much as a proven Velocity)

$50K builder assist.

That's $200K before engine, avionics, accessories,
paint, and interior.

All this for an untested plane and a company with no
track record - what's the motivation for buyers to go
this route?

Maybe it's just me...

Pat
 
--- Tony Babb <tonybabb at alejandra.net> wrote:

> Looking at their web site I noticed a throttle
> quadrant in the center, does
> it have sidesticks?  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org
> [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
> Behalf Of Craig and Denise Woolston
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 6:35 AM
> To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Sun-n-fun news ?
> 
> 
> Yea, there was a real airplane there.  They towed it
> up and claimed it would
> be flying to Osh.  It was close to looking done. 
> Panel was lit up with OP
> Tech glass panels, engine was hung and cowled up,
> interior in, paint all
> done, etc.  The dead give away that they still had
> work to go was the
> exhaust was straight from the Velocity factory and
> untrimmed and not even
> run.  So who knows what's left but probably not
> much.  I think they will
> need to do some "real test flying".  There are a lot
> of similar shapes but
> enough differences that I would not have gotten in
> it if I was offered a
> ride and they hadn't told me/showed me they had
> really tested the aircraft.
> 
> There is dihedral in the canard as well as sweep. 
> All the shapes are fatter
> and the wings droop down some.  The gear was
> different and all metal, it
> looked better from a retract complexity, but I'm not
> a retract guy.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org
> [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Epstein
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:04 AM
> To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Sun-n-fun news ?
> 
> Did this company show an actual aircraft? Flying?
> Looks like another Velo rippoff
> >Might not be NEW news for some, but I was surprised
> by this,
> >
> >http://www.freedom-aviation.com/main.htm


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